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Questions 16 to 20 are based on the following passage:
“Clean your plate!”and“Be a member of the clean-plate club!” Just about every kid in the US has heard this from a parent or grandparent. Often, it's accompanied by an appeal: Just think about those starving（饥饿）in Africa! Sure, we should be grateful for every bite of food. Unfortunately, many people in the US take too many bites. Instead of staying“clean the plate”, perhaps we should save some food for tomorrow.

According to newsreports, US restaurants are partly to blame for the growing bellies（肚子）. A waiter puts a plate of food in front of each customer, with two to four times the amount recommended（推荐）by the government, according to a USA Today story. American
Barbara Rolls, a nutrition professorat Pennsylvania State University, told USA Today that restaurant portion sizes began to grow in the 1970s, the same time that the American waist line began to expand.
Health experts have tried to get many restaurants to serve smaller portions. Now, apparent1y, some customs are calling for this too. The restaurant industry trade magazine QS Rreported last month that 57 percent of more than 4,000 people surveyed believe
It's not that working class Americans don't want to eat healthy. It's just that, after long hours at low-paying jobs, getting less on their plate hardly seem like a good dea1. They live from paycheck（薪水）to paycheck, happy to save a little mone
A.to save food
B.to wash the dishes
C.not to waste food
D.not to eat too much

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